The goal of Unity Works is to help congregations and individuals understand challenges faced by those trapped in poverty, particularly those who are homeless or at-risk for becoming homeless. During this eight week series of workshops, participants will become more familiar with how the faith community can help prevent homelessness by working in partnership with [...]
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On April 30th, we looked at the main barriers to individuals obtaining and maintaining housing. Wendy pointed out that individuals must have employment in order to enter transitional and private party housing. Even those who have employment are often unable to maintain employment due to recurring issues with substance abuse, which is the largest single [...]
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This past Thursday, Erika Haskins from Homeward was with us and she shared with us some information about the homeless network system. She emphasized the gaps that exist on either end of the spectrum in prevention and in permanent housing stability and the two year process that people in homelessness go through in order to [...]
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Hello to our Spring 2009 Evening Workshop of Unity Works. As we explained in our first session, you will have to participate in the blogs weekly- sharing your thoughts and ideas about the book as well as what we may have discussed in the workshop session. This past week was our first session, which was [...]
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Jim Trefil was our speaker this past week; he served as a peer mentor at The Healing Place and now works with us at Caritas Works and Embrace Richmond. He educated us on the history of The Healing Place and then went into the specifics of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). We learned that day, that AA [...]
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We started last week’s discussion by walking through the Employment Continuum of Care where we looked at the different types of employment like Supportive, Transitional, Competitive and Independent. Supportive employment gives people jobs and provides support for them by helping with soft skills like time management, understanding authority, etc. An example of a place that [...]
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This week’s session was on homelessness and housing. It was information packed with understanding the journey of homelessness. As our guest speaker from Homeward, Erika Haskins- Jones, mentioned, right now the journey is a linear one, where people travel from being at-risk through the very daunting process to permanent housing. The goal today is for [...]
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We began our Spring Session of Unity Works last Thursday by meeting our participants and our indigenous guides. We opened by answering the question, “What obstacles prevent us from reaching real solutions to the issues of poverty?” As we came up with a multitude of answers, lack of faith, red-tape from the government, lack [...]
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